in billiards

  • 21billiards room — biliardinė statusas T sritis Kūno kultūra ir sportas apibrėžtis Patalpa biliardui žaisti. kilmė plg. biliardas atitikmenys: angl. billiards room vok. Billardraum, m rus. бильярдная …

    Sporto terminų žodynas

  • 22billiards player — biliardininkas statusas T sritis Kūno kultūra ir sportas apibrėžtis Biliardo sportininkas, nuolat dalyvaujantis varžybose; biliardo žaidėjas. atitikmenys: angl. billiards player vok. Billardspieler, m rus. игрок в бильярд …

    Sporto terminų žodynas

  • 23billiards — noun a) A two player cue sport played with two cue balls and one red ball, on a snooker sized table. b) The collective noun for games played on a tabletop, usually with several balls, one or more of which is hit by a cue …

    Wiktionary

  • 24billiards — (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. pool. WORD FIND • ball’s recoil after impact: draw • miss: scratch • shot in which ball first strikes cushion: bricole • shot in which cue ball is bounced off cushion or strikes two balls in succession: carom • shot… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 25billiards — bil|liards [ bıljərdz ] noun uncount a game played on a special table in which two people use CUES (=long sticks) to hit balls into POCKETS (=holes) at the edge of the table ─ compare POOL1 2, SNOOKER …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 26billiards — [16] Billiard comes from French billard, which is the name not only of the game, but also of the cue it is played with. And the cue is the clue to the word’s history, for it comes from French bille ‘tree trunk’, hence ‘long cylindrical bit of… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 27billiards — [ bɪljədz] plural noun [treated as sing.] a game for two people played on a billiard table, using three balls. Origin C16: from Fr. billard, denoting both the game and the cue, dimin. of bille (see billet2) …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 28billiards — noun (plural) a game played on a cloth covered table in which balls are hit with a cue (=a long stick) against each other and into pockets at the edge of the table compare pool 1 (3), snooker 1 billiard adjective (only before noun): a billiard… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 29billiards — bil·liards …

    English syllables

  • 30billiards — UK [ˈbɪlɪə(r)dz] / US [ˈbɪljərdz] noun [uncountable] a game played on a special table in which two people use cues (= long sticks) to hit balls into pockets (= holes) at the edge of the table See: pool I, 2), snooker I …

    English dictionary